Question
What are the symptoms of clenching teeth, grimacing, wide-open eyes, and staring straight ahead?
Answer
Hello, these symptoms could be indicative of pediatric epilepsy. The diagnosis criteria for pediatric epilepsy involve sudden and intermittent seizures, accompanied by consciousness impairment and generalized or focal convulsions. These seizures can occur at any time and may include self-injury, urinary incontinence, dilated pupils, and loss of light reflexes. There is often insufficient recognition of the importance of sleep recording (especially of natural sleep or non-pharmacological induced sleep after sleep deprivation) and EEG (electroencephalogram). It is as important to record the sleep state (especially natural sleep or non-pharmacological induced sleep after sleep deprivation) as it is to perform EEGs; otherwise, the positivity rate will inevitably decrease. Tests such as routine urine, blood, stool tests, liver function tests, kidney function tests, blood metabolite tests, and parasitic examinations should also be conducted. The EEG is still the most important test.